The Daily Dick: Musings on the Greatest Novel Ever
"Though the word ambergris is but the French compound for grey amber, yet the two substances are quite distinct."
The Daily Dick: Musings on the Greatest Novel Ever
"And this, good friends, is ambergris, worth a gold guinea an ounce to any druggist."
The Daily Dick: Musings on the Greatest Novel Ever
"It’s against my principles to drink with the man I’ve diddled."
The Daily Dick: Musings on the Greatest Novel Ever
"But is the Queen a mermaid, to be presented with a tail? An allegorical meaning may lurk here."
The Daily Dick: Musings on the Greatest Novel Ever
"From the books of the Laws of England, which taken along with the context, means, that of all whales captured by anybody on the coast of that land, the King, as Honorary Grand Harpooneer, must have the head, and the Queen be respectfully presented with the tail."
The Daily Dick: Musings From the Greatest Novel Ever
"What to the ostentatious smuggling verbalists are the thoughts of thinkers but Loose-Fish? What is the great globe itself but a Loose-Fish? And what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?"
The Daily Dick: Musings From the Greatest Novel Ever
"What was America in 1492 but a Loose-Fish, in which Columbus struck the Spanish standard by way of wailing it for his royal master and mistress? What was Poland to the Czar? What Greece to the Turk? What India to England? What at last will Mexico be to the United States? All Loose-Fish."
The Daily Dick: Musings from the Greatest Novel Ever
"Likewise a fish is technically fast when it bears a waif, or any other recognized symbol of possession; so long as the party wailing it plainly evince their ability at any time to take it alongside, as well as their intention so to do."
The Daily Dick: Musings From the Greatest Novel Ever
"First: What is a Fast-Fish? Alive or dead a fish is technically fast, when it is connected with an occupied ship or boat, by any medium at all controllable by the occupant or occupants,- a mast, an oar, a nine-inch cable, a telegraph wire, or a strand of cobweb, it is all the same."
The Daily Dick: Musings from the Greatest Novel Ever
"A Loose-Fish is fair game for anybody who can soonest catch it."
